Archive for June, 2008

Video: True Heroism vs. True Lunacy

Thanks to Glenn Beck for reporting on this story. Watching this made me just a little sad, but even moreso outraged. It goes to show how an organization with the most noble of beginnings can fall prey to the schemes of the leftist elite.
The video player is on the right side of this page. When [...]

RCJ gun poll

In light of yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, today’s Rapid City Journal online poll question is:
“Do you keep a gun in your home for protection?”
I voted. You might feel inclined to do the same.
Here’s the link: http://www.rapidcityjournal.com
 
 

Federal appeals court kills injunction on abortion law

It’s a small step… but it’s a step in the right direction.
From the AP, via the Rapid City Journal’s wire service:
PIERRE, S.D. - A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court order that had blocked enforcement of a South Dakota law that would require doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure ends a [...]

Max Wetz on the STANtrum

From the Rapid City Journal, June 26, 2008:
Adelstein said he has been assured that the state Republican Party will support him during the campaign. GOP state executive director Max Wetz of Pierre confirmed that by e-mail on Wednesday, saying the party will work for Adelstein and all other Republican candidates throughout the state.
“Stan Adelstein is [...]

Second amendment upheld

From FOX News: 
WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history.
The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The [...]

RC papers pick up on STANtrum

In tomorrow’s Journal:
Stan boots Elli from GOP grand opening
(more to come) 
In this week’s RC Weekly:
The tense political rivalry between Stan Adelstein and Elli Schwiesow flared during an open house at the new South Dakota West River Republican Campaign Headquarters on West Main Street last week.
Schwiesow was delivering a cake and, she said, good wishes to [...]

Cal Thomas: “Get Back”

Truer words have never been spoken. Glad to see someone else out there realizes what’s going on within our party. 
From RealClearPolitics:
“Get back, get back. Get back to where you once belonged.” — The Beatles
The Republican Party is in distress. Doomsayers are everywhere. Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. Duncan complains that conservative, pro-life, pro-gun Democrats won [...]

Thomas Sowell on Obama and Iran

Excerpted from RealClearPolitics - http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/obama_and_mccain.html
“Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober– if not grim– assessment of where we are.
Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for [...]

Adelstein’s Cupcake Crock

From the Wingnut e-Newsletter:
A report from Monday’s lunch, 11 Wingnuts arrived to partake of a great lunch and of course we all visited about the deplorable actions of the adelstein meltdown last week when he literally blew up and screamed and ranted at Elli Schwiesow for showing up to the Grand Opening of the SOUTH [...]